Muffin Break in Blackburn is one of the newer stores in the Muffin Break franchise, I came in here while in Blackburn as this is my joint-local store alongside the Wigan branch, meanwhile the nearest branch after that is 66 miles away so it does show that there is a slightly uneven spread of their 60 stores or so around the country.
I have visited various branches of Muffin Break now in areas such as Wigan, Birmingham and Leeds so I'm not a newbie to this chain, and I mainly called in today to pick up a gluten free muffin.
They were reasonably priced for £1.95 but however for the quality it simply wasn't as good. they just tasted really, thick and filling and even with the blueberry they just tasted dry, luckily I took a muffin home with me and I enjoyed it slightly more with some Gingerbread Cream from my Gingerbread latte at Starbucks, but really the muffin its-self provided was just dry and not very nice.
My friend's who were with me also complained about the same matter, they stated it was very filling but certainly far from excellent and it was pretty expensive too as it worked out £7 - £8 just for 3 measly cakes / muffins.
Service was pretty slow and confusing with two staff members working in a tight gap, and with only one gluten free muffin of the one flavor, it was worrying someone would take it and then I would have ended up queuing for nothing, but honestly I wish they would have done now, as it was just wasting my money on poor quality.
Inside, it is okay and nothing more than that and it certainly isn't the best place for coffee in Blackburn with Rhode Island and Starbucks much better, meaning sadly I can only award this branch a single one star. read more